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|author=Leanne EganPaul B Preciado|title=Lover BirdsDysphoria Mundi

|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=When ''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new girlsensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, Isabelit is the proportional, moves valid response to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, emancipatory forces and conservative resistances thatcharacterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou . The whole text is straightframed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, isnwhen dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a good kiss with any sign of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabelweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, and wanting Preciado urges his readers to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?'use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |isbn=000862657X1804271454

|author=Sally RooneySamantha Harvey|title=IntermezzoOrbital

|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this storyIn 2024, Samantha Harvey won the central one Booker Prize for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan''Orbital'', a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, compact yet profound work that unfolds over a successful lawyer living single day in Dublinthe lives of a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Following their father's passing after Through a long battle with cancer, narrative lens that mirrors the brothersastronauts' already strained relationship faces orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new trialslight.|isbn=05713654691529922933

|isbn=1009473085295967572X|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024Pale Pieces|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)G M Stevens

|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Sometimes it's simpler Our unnamed narrator is about to explain begin a book by describing what it ''isn't'train journey with his companion Django. Where they' re going and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver Django found the inside story about what tickets ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If thatfloor somewhere's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return has persuaded our narrator to politicsaccompany him. ''The Conservative Effect'' Why not? Not much else is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book clear either - but we are probably in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this past as the most important. This book follows pair travel to the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred station by coach and the situation in 2024train is a steam locomotive.

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0008551324|title=ChimeraThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Science Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The survivor stumbles forwardAll was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, her steps echoing a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the oppressive silenceprotagonists caught in its melancholic current. Her heart pounds like |isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a jackhammernew life on Orkney. She doesn’t know where she’s heading It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. All Willow's also his boss, and she remembers ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is runningfound, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. Terror chasing. Everything lost He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.

In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''Broken come over here and fragmented recollections tumble around kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her heademotional numbness. Fear courses through The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her bodydetachment. Her breaths come |isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in shallowthe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, ragged gasps as desperation claws at her throatmother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Dehydration consumes Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and herboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and a raging thirst feels unquenchableAlison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.''

Ernaux''There s work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be a way outone of the most intimate accounts I've read. As she moves through the foreign area, memories begin Ernaux writes in direct address to gel. Disaster had ploughed through her life—not just herssister, however, everyone’sthis letter will never reach her.Why? Because Annie Ernaux'' As our survivor struggles to orient herselfs sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, she's guided by a robot, which looks human-few months before the vaccine was madecompulsory in France, but she can't be sureand 2 years before the author was even born. It says it is. It says she must try not to injure herself. Guided The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an interview imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an eerie, terrifying group absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of aliensTolstoy, she desperately tries to make sense Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of flashes of memory life- environmental degradationwriting which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, deals done and then betrayedoffers a vibrant, horrifying rituals covering desperate attempts subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to survive - and his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to attempt be. Whom would it help to explain know how she came I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to be herehow he saw Tolstoy, apparently the last human being aliveChekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=B0DNVWMYP21804271977

|authorisbn=Max Boucherat1529077745|title=The Last Life of Lori MillsDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We meet Lori on A man walking his dog in the first evening she's got early morning discovered the house to herself – no neighbour to pop body of a man inthe park near Rosebank, babysitter poorly, mother at a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesomea shift the night before but who had never turned up. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled D I Vera Stanhope is called in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, investigate the worldmurder -buildingbut her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, critterfourteen-collecting game year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is a hit in Loriunlikely as the girl's worlddiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. But first Lori She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B0FK5LHKD9|title=The Colour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to see a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesnnew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Like all Bowden't find herself entirely on her owns stories, and then she finds something even more spooky. For there's a mystery at the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs heart of ''The Colour of tamperingMoney''. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place We like this running theme in the game has been doctored – well, where is an author's work - take a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482mystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.

|author=Fyodor DostoyevskyOlga Tokarczuk|title=White NightsHouse of Day, House of Night

|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=As always ''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in Dostoyevskyit?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the character work is sublimesmall, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. One But, the constant in that image is never left wondering what a character the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and temperaments with remarkable clarityperceived.|isbn=02416197851804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.

|isbn=00083850681836284683|title=The Midnight FeastBig Happy|author=Lucy FoleyDavid Chadwick

|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=ItWell! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's midsummer nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on the Dorset coast and guests gather at a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Manor. ItBig Happy's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and sheI don's converted it into an impressive retreat t want to ruin a similar experience for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the sitescene. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it wonOnce that't be long before a body is founds done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.

|author=James BaldwinSally Rooney|title=Giovanni's RoomIntermezzo

|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows Sally Rooney has studied the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in chessboard of life and is something of a gay bargrandmaster at putting it into words. While David Her dialogue is engaged to Hellagripping and so brilliantly frustrating, who is travelling in Spainas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the real tension in central one for readers to unravel is the novel arises not from fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himselfolder brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. It is DavidFollowing their father's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship with Giovannifaces new trials.|isbn=01411863560571365469

|authorisbn=Ashley Hickson-Lovence1036916375|title=Wild EastJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=Written in verse, this ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy collection of memories and reflections from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and start at around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a mostly white schoolsea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. The move is initiated by RonnyIt's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying book to settle in a new town, a new school, into and keep himself out of trouble. He listens allow your mind to music constantlyroam across your childhood memories, and has always dreamed to think of being simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a rapperconstant factor in McArdle's early years. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part I'd never heard of a poetry writing workshop group parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and, slowly, Ronny begins to see could appear after the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your wordsall-clear was sounded.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=16358668471836285493|title=The Lavender CompanionDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin VesciRob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=It's strangeWill is a keen player of video games, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''a conscientious student, I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] a slightly annoying brother and there's a picture supportive friend. But most of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepageall, he is an aspiring writer. I don't eat cakes English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerallyone at which he excels. (ThereThis hasn's a recipe in the bookt gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told she has suggested to make Will and his mum that he spends a mess couple of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be a problem. I ''loved'' this book alreadybetter extended.

|authorisbn=Han Kang1009473085|title=The VegetarianConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionPolitics and Society|summary=This novel, winner of the International Booker Prize in 2016 Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and penned by that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an author who received easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the Nobel Prize book for you. If that's what you're looking for Literature this year, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is as close to unputdownable as it getsan entirely different beast. It more than lives up to 's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the acclaimmost important. The story introduces uncanny characters with fragileThis book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, vividly tangible bodies yet unknowable, elusive soulsthe changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.|isbn=1803510056

|authorisbn=Onyi Nwabineli1529934753|title=Allow Me to Introduce MyselfThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the worldcountry's most famous living artist, thanks was not going to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social mediashow up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, where she posted every step he arrived in the nick of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer deals , you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair andproceeded to spray Bruce in the face, basicallywhilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, monetary gainbut this was different. Now Anuri is in her twenties The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ariel Saramandi|title=Portrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and she is slowly trying Society|summary=In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to regain her confidence intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to get her expose how these legacies still shape modern life back. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'', suing her step-mother to take down a blunt yet apt metaphor for the content systemic decay brought about herby the malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Anuri is battling alcoholismEach essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, failing to start her PhDcharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616}}{{Frontpage|author=Pekka Harju-Autti|title=LoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's the eighteenth century, undergoing therapy a time of discovery and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing soBritain is expanding its foreign trade. Most importantlyCaptain Julius Hawthorne, she is desperately worried about her little sisteran experienced Scottish sea captain, who is sent to the new focus of Ophelia's online empireAndaman Islands in his endeavour. Can she save her sisterAlong with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and perhaps herself stunning in their scenery and her relationship with her father at the same time?islanders' leader, Aarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=0861546873B0DS1VGHH3

|author=David ChadwickHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Headload of NapalmLili is Crying

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= It's September 1973 First published in Hicks1953 in French, California. Hicks this novel is a Mojave desert town timeless text which wrenches the hearts of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and Las Vegas both a significant drive awaypositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are Like the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much lives of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiether characters, until...they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn= B0D321VJ761804271675

|author=Joan DidionGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Year of Magical ThinkingAccidentals

|genre=AutobiographyShort Stories|summary=This book is Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the grief she endured following her husband's sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful word: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and necessary resource to help people feel less alonehuman relationships. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and makes them utterly normalprecisely, lends them her stories structured by a human face wisdom that appears to want to wearteach us something about the world.|isbn=00072168581804271470

|isbn=00085513240008551375|title=The Devil You Know When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)

|summary=ItLeanne Wilson's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve found at the remainder bottom of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to aska Scottish mountain, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do seemingly the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241678412|title=The Proof result of My Innocence|author=Jonathan Coe|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Life after university hasn't worked out quite the way that Phyl anticipateda tragic accident. She's back homed looked so happy, too, living with when she posted her parents and intentions on a zero-hours contract serving sushi to tourists at terminal 5 of Heathrow AirportFacebook. All those ideas of becoming a writer seem to have come to nothing. The situation improves when 'Uncle' Chris comes to stay and introduces Phyl to his adopted daughter, Rashida. Christopher Swann (described by some Her friends were relieved as a lefty blogger) is investigating a think tank which originated at Cambridge University in the 1980s. It plans to push the government in a more extreme direction and is ready to act.}}{{Frontpage|title=Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?|author=Claire Dederer|rating=3|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Dederer sets she was just out to unveil what she calls a ''biography of the audience'' in a deconstructed, thoroughly nitpicked, exploration of the old aphorism of separating the art from the artist in the context of contemporary ''cancel culture''. Dederer's work is original and expressive. The reader gets the impression that the thoughts simply sprang and leapt from her brilliant mind and onto the page. In particular, the prologue packs a punch: she simultaneously condemns and exalts the director Roman Polanski, an artist she personally admires for his artunpleasant relationship, and yet despises for his actions. This model of ''monstrous men'' as but it looked like she calls them, is consistent for the first few chapters, interrogating the likes of Woody Allen, Michael Jackson and Pablo Picasso. Her critical voice is acutely present throughout, never slipping into anonymity and maintaining was living her own subjectivity, as she holds it so dearly, and a personal, rather than collective voice.|isbn=1399715070}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739526910|title=Where I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's best life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer nightnow. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, Then it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies emerged that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies five other women had died in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his dog similar circumstances in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teenslast year. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residentsAll were experienced climbers, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible properly equipped for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura they were doing and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a centurysensible people. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit None of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at what a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going stupid thing to end in tragedy. We dondo't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequencesexplanations applied. Twenty-five years later They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school killer on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B0DGDJRHYD|title=Nowhere Man|author=Deborah Stone|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=In a quiet suburban house, Patrick is making his final plans. A meticulous man, he makes sure of every preparation, down to the last detail. Some last reflections, and then he says goodbye to his wife, the world, and his life. It's horribly sad. At work in her shop, his wife Diana is fending off yet another phone call about her ageing and ailing mother, who needs extricating from yet another accident. It will be a while before Diana realises what Patrick has doneloose.